How influential was Albert Einstein on the timeline of the creation of the atomic bomb?

by -Unogasm-
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In very very brief: a lot less than most people think. No matter how you slice the question.

I've written at some length about this. His physics (despite popular understanding) has essentially nothing to do with the feasibility or development of nuclear weapons; his letter to FDR did not really start the project and may have (some argued even at the time) slowed it down (by getting the government involved too early, when it was too speculative).